Well it’s the beginning of Christmas week so I thought I would start with this little song. I have a good friend who helped me when I was writing my book The Wormwood Deception and his son has released this very pretty tune for Christmas. I think a lot of people will be able to […]
Day 275: Hope Christmas Gets You To Me, Lapwing Read More »
I ended last week’s Covid Island Discs with another song from Bob Dylan. This reminded me of a David Bowie song which is a tribute to Dylan’s musical genius. Really think the lines below that Bowie penned about Dylan are quite appropriate. About a strange young man called Dylan With a voice like sand and
Day 274: Song for Dylan, David Bowie Read More »
Never have I wanted the main lyric of this song to be true as in 2020. I so much hope and pray that the wicked spell of far right politics is broken in 2021. So tired of the Trump’s, Putin’s and Johnson’s of this world.
Day 273: Time’s are a changing, Bob Dylan Read More »
There is something very sad and true about this song. Perhaps it is just me, but there are lyrics in this song that I have related to at different times in my life. Probably the lines that I most relate to at this present time are: Bruises that won’t heal You look so tired, unhappy
Day 272: No Surprises, Radiohead Read More »
Another very beautiful song from the 1980s. I beginning to think that perhaps the 80s was one of the best decade for contemporary music or perhaps, more likely, it was just my formative years when I was developing my musical taste and collecting lots of albums.
Day 271: Angel of the Morning, Juice Newton Read More »
OK so this song is at the extreme end of pop. Some may argue the worst of the seventies. I include this song however for a very specific reason. My autistic daughter is unable to hold a conversation so understanding what she is thinking and feeling can be challenging at the best of time. Yet
Day 270: It’s Magic, Pilot Read More »
Another timeless classic. One of those pieces where the saxophone really become the key instrument in making the song so distinctive.
Day 269: Baker Street, Gerry Raffery Read More »
Funny how after so many weeks of posting I have yet to put a song by the band America. I think this is one of their best songs. One lyric in this song contains a very clever use of the nightmarish number of homophones that exist in the English language, which always trip people like
Day 268: Sister Golden Hair, America Read More »
Another classic song from Joni Mitchell. The title of this song comes from this classic lyric: Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone They paved paradise, put
Day 267: Big Yellow taxi, Joni Mitchell Read More »
I shall close off week 38 returning to my musical centre of gravity with this Pink floyd classic from their Wish you were here album. It is funny but I started scouring the 2020 music charts for something modern to include in Covid Island Discs and I could not believe how the music scene now
Day 266: Shine on you crazy diamond, Pink Floyd Read More »
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